PHEM Cast

JULY 6, 2017

[link] The West Midlands surgical skills course offers cadaveric training for PHEM and EM practitioners on rare life saving procedures. Cricothyrotomy performed with the Melker set or the QuickTrach kit: procedure times, learning curves and operators’ preference. Click here to go straight to their page. Frerk et al. Sottile, D.,

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Northwestern EM Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This post will discuss a brief overview of hospital planning and operational setup with key elements of a disaster response from events that cause high numbers of blunt trauma, penetrating trauma, burns or crush injuries that may be seen following explosive events, mass shootings, or large scale motor vehicle collisions, to name a few.

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Taming the SRU

OCTOBER 30, 2024

R4 Capstone with dr. wright Rural America is facing a worsening crisis in healthcare, including emergency care, with 140 rural hospitals closing since 2010 - and 700 more at risk of following suit. Your words matter, know how to avoid misgendering your patients and know how you will correct your team when it happens.

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PHEM Cast

DECEMBER 1, 2017

For example, here are the locations identified as ‘2nd ICS mid clavicular line’ amongst 25 EM physicians in a 2005 EMJ paper. Journal of Special Operations Medicine : a Peer Reviewed Journal for SOF Medical Professionals , 13 (4), 53–58. Note – again please do not use this location! Wyrzykowski, A. Kirkpatrick, A.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Farrington] Rebuilding of outdated hospitals put emergency rooms on ground level with nearby X-ray service, and, ideally, sometimes closer to the Blood Bank and the Operating Rooms. Advocacy for Trauma Care and EMS Development. Development of EM Residencies. EM begins to "Own the Airway" (emergent). EDNA->ENA.

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RebelEM

MARCH 27, 2023

First ED-based study to evaluate how operational effects such as crowding can affect patient care in the form of LPV Included ARDS criteria relating to the usage of LPV in the ED allowing evaluation as to whether patients with ARDS were more likely to receive LPV settings. 2011 Feb 15; Epub 2010 Aug 27. Am J Respir Crit Care Med.

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RebelEM

MARCH 9, 2023

Pompili 2010) However, >65% of patients who endorse suicidal ideation when intoxicated no longer endorse suicidal ideation once sober. 2010 Apr;7(4):1392-431. Epub 2010 Mar 29. Operational criteria for the classification of chronic alcoholics: identification of Wernicke’s encephalopathy. Alcohol Alcohol.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Classic Advice to New Interns (Commentary upon 10 Commandments of EM) Ten Commandments of Emergency Medicine Luke & Cusack Cork Emergency Medicine 2014 The Derriford twelve commandments of emergency medicine: a model for good practice in a changing world, or a survival guide for new medical staff Smith, J. PubMed PMID: 15261366.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

MAY 3, 2014

Review of the Wellcome Library movies on YouTube (1945) [ links below in references ] is instructive as to resuscitative methods of the 1930s and 1940s: Manual methods; gas bag or bellows operated by hand or machine; an anesthesia gas machine; or iron lung. 5 (1944) broad review including how to make and clean your own ETTs. . <

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ALiEM

MAY 13, 2024

63M with an Erythematous Abdomen Limitations of POCUS As with all ultrasound applications, soft tissue POCUS is operator dependent. Lam SHF, Sivitz A, Alade K, Doniger SJ, Tessaro MO, Rabiner JE, Arroyo A, Castillo EM, Thompson CA, Yang M, Mistry RD. 2010 Nov;39(5):637-43. The ultrasound can only see what is scanned.

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EB Medicine

JULY 8, 2019

Additionally, back in 2010, it was estimated that 6.6% Jeff: And while it’s not exactly core EM, we’re going to briefly discuss indications for bariatric surgery, as this is something we don’t often review even in academic training programs. Jeff: Even more shockingly, some series showed a 52% repeat operation rate.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

now an EM resident at Beth Israel. JACC 55(9):934-947; 2010 ]. A receiver operating characteristic graph over all the different percentage cutoffs might help more formally make those tradeoffs. Plotting the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve compared to each formula as the gold standard, and labeling the cutoffs (i.e.

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EB Medicine

AUGUST 1, 2018

Nachi: Sometimes… Jeff: This month’s issue was authored by Mollie Williams, who is the EM residency program director at the Brooklyn Hospital Center. From 2010 to 2011, the number of ED visits by children aged 12 to 17 years old due to synthetic cannabinoid use also has doubled. Counsel them on drug abuse also.

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EMDocs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

CT is the most useful examination for patients with suspected complications of colonic diverticulitis because of its reproducibility, superior diagnostic accuracy (98%)m accuracy for alternative diagnoses with a similar presentation, risk-stratification of patients for operative versus nonoperative treatment, and inpatient versus outpatient triage.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

APRIL 8, 2015

in 2010 EM Clinics of North America (full text link) For an Exhaustive Review of Syncope and its full management outside the ED environment, go to the 2009 European Society of Cardiology Guidelines (full text pdf). J Am Coll Cardiol, 2010; 55:713-721, doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2009.09.049 95% confidence interval [CI] = 3.0 Quinn et al.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

It wrongly frightened some medical personnel as it was operated by a 50 psi wall source or from a step-down regulator from a tank (some thought the patient received wall 50 psi or 1500 psig from the tank directly to the lung. Automatic transport ventilator versus bag valve in the EMS setting: a prospective, randomized trial.

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EB Medicine

JANUARY 2, 2019

I know this is a HOTLY debated topic among EM Docs. Jeff: Perhaps most importantly, no history or physical alone can rule in or out an ectopic pregnancy, for that you’ll need testing and imaging or operative findings. A 2010 Meta-Analysis found a NPV of 99.96% when an er doc identified an IUP on bedside ultrasound.

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EMDocs

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Authors: Mary Hamblen, DO (EM Resident Physician, TX); Justin Hacnik, MD (EM Resident Physician, TX); Katherine Spencer, MD (EM Resident Physician, TX); J.D. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2010, 18 , 61. Am J Med Sci 2010, 339 (1), 25-30. 32 Table 2 : Memphis Criteria. Acquafresca, M.; Bartolini, M.; Sporns, P.

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EMDocs

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Bhana, MD (EM Resident Physician, University of Massachusetts/UMass Chan Medical School); Clarence Kong, MD (Pain Fellow, Eastern Virginia Medical School – Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion University); Mani Hashemi, MD (EM Attending, HCA Florida Mercy Hospital); S.M. 2017.04.011 Witt CE, Bulger EM. Authors: Nikhil B.

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Pediatric EM Morsels

MARCH 7, 2025

2022.01.069 The post TXA (Tranexamic Acid) in Pediatrics appeared first on Pediatric EM Morsels. of IV form TXA [O’Neill 2020] Inexpensive ! Effectiveness and safety of tranexamic acid in pediatric trauma: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Am J Emerg Med. 2022;55:103-110. doi:10.1016/j.ajem.2022.01.069

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RebelEM

DECEMBER 18, 2024

2010, (Ch) 70: p 895-909. Philadelphia: Mosby Elsevier, 2010. Rezaie, MD (Twitter/X: @srrezaie ) The post REBEL Core Cast 133.0 – TMJ Dislocation appeared first on REBEL EM - Emergency Medicine Blog. Louis, Mosby, Inc., GorchynskiJ et al. J Emerg Med. 2014; 47(6):676-81. PMID 25278137 Marx JA et al. Mendez DR et al.

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EMDocs

JANUARY 16, 2025

Authors: Kyle Smiley (EM Resident, BAMC, San Antonio, TX) // Reviewed by: Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK); Brit Long, MD (@long_brit) Welcome to Critical Kids, an emDOCs series focused on pediatric emergency medicine. Pediatric emergencies are challenging. Well provide summaries of the evidence to support your decisions at the bedside.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

MARCH 27, 2015

They also proved that only expired air resuscitation guaranteed sufficient inflation volumes; that exhaled air was a suitable resuscitating gas; and that the operator would have continuous feedback from each breath. Ontario EMS Nasal Tracheal Intubation Video on the YouTube Channel of Ontario EMS. Brown III, MD, Ali S.

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